Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[EJ <emj@uvic.ca>]

 rose hips, black currants

On 28/09/10 2:14 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> > Where do folks in the higher lattitudes get vitamin C in the winter, if
> > not for oranges?) > Barbara M
> > Foster, RI
>
> I remember when oranges where still relatively new in many parts of 
> Europe.They were nearly inedible for being so sour. So I would guess 
> that people in higher latitudes had other ways of getting vitamin C 
> for thousands of years before oranges reached them.
> A tea/infusion made from pine needles did it for locals in the Arctic 
> region and they saved many an "explorer" from scurvy death with that.
> john
>
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